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Pacific Media Watch is compiled for the Pacific Media Centre as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
Pacific coronavirus: Indonesia issues ‘no mercy’ warning on border crossing
By Elias Nanau in Vanimo
Indonesia has issued a stern warning over illegal border crossers from Papua New Guinea.
This follows Indonesia stepping up its security...
Māori and Pacific percentages of NZ’s coronavirus cases announced
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New Zealand's Ministry of Health has confirmed that out of the 514 Covid-19 cases to date, approximately 4 percent of those cases...
President Lú-Olo declares Timor-Leste state of emergency over coronavirus
Pacific Media Watch
The President of Timor-Leste, Francisco Guterres Lú-Olo, has declared a state of emergency to enable the government to address the global Covid-19...
Effective coronavirus messages and fake news: Can we do better?
COMMENTARY: By Bob Howarth (self-isolating in Australia after his latest trip to Timor-Leste)
After days of web surfing for Covid-19 coronavirus news around the Asia-Pacific,...
Pacific Coronavirus: Covid-19 death reported in West Papua
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
A 43-year-old woman has reportedly died due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Indonesian-administered West Papua province.
It is the...
‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to...
OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili
The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus...
Fiji University vice-chancellor banned after breaking Covid-19 cordon
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The Fiji government has banned the vice-chancellor of the University of Fiji from the country, reports Fiji TV News.
The Immigration Department reportedly...
Timor’s Jornal Independente distributes free virus editions
By Bob Howarth
The Timor-Leste Press Council directors have called a media conference to announce that one of the country's five newspapers, Jornal Independente, is...
How a copyboy became Timor-Leste’s lone ranger foreign correspondent
By Bob Howarth in Dili
With the rapid spread of the dreaded Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic across the Pacific and Asia many people naturally seek online...
Social (status) distancing? Filipinos seek laughs via lockdown memes
By Rappler
Filipinos on lockdown have sought comic relief online through various memes and social media posts related to the uncomfortable experience of being quarantined...
What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a...
OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae
So it’s a global pandemic with 16,000+ dead already, more than 375,000 infected and nearly 102,000 recovered.
It was a...
Confusion behind PNG’s first Covid-19 case – flawed state communications
ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Mogi in Port Moresby
And so it’s out. Papua New Guinea's first infection case. 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Covid-19.
In what is arguably the...
Marape confirms PNG’s first Covid-19 coronavirus case on live TV
By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has reported its first confirmed Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic case.
The announcement, made last night live on television...
Coronavirus: 5 ways to manage your news consumption in times of...
ANALYSIS: By Mark Pearson of Griffith University
Thousands of employees internationally are already working from home in COVID-19 self-isolation because of their recent travel, related...
Drama and panic as PNG government blunders through first Covid-19 crisis
By EMTV News
A day of intense drama officially ended in Papua New Guinea just before 9pm yesterday when Prime Minister James Marape casually announced...
Bainimarama announces tougher bans in Fiji after first Covid-19 case
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama today confirmed that Fiji is putting into place a number of tighter measures following the first case...
More Pacific countries bracing for coronavirus cases as Fiji on alert
Pacific Media Watch
With the Covid-19 coronavirus confirmed cases in French Polynesia, Guam, now New Caledonia other Pacific Island nations are bracing for it.
Fiji Prime...
PNG has probable coronavirus case, declares health minister
Pacific Media Watch
Papua New Guinea has a probable imported case of Covid-19 coronavirus, Health Minister Jelta Wong has announced today,
The case is a 45-year-old...
CNN Philippines temporarily goes off air as broadcast building disinfected
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CNN Philippines temporarily stopped broadcasting today after another tenant of the building in the capital Manila where it is located confirmed a...
Coronavirus threat to Pacific, Papuan students in NZ and a starfish...
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The Pacific Media Centre's weekly Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM has featured the latest Pacific news brought to you by Pacific...
Highlands tribal fighting in PNG – Scott Waide backgrounds the conflict
Scott Waide's EMTV News report.
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Three children were among ten people killed in a brutal attack in Porgera in Papua New Guinea's Highlands...
Pacific borders tightened further in bid to keep out coronavirus
By RNZ Pacific
Pacific countries have further tightened border measures to try to keep the coronavirus from gaining a foothold in the islands.
Six cases of...
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